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Originally Posted by Rekna
Here is what I think needs to be done to help make our election system better.
1st: Electoral College, Don't eliminate it but states should not be all or nothing they should be porportional. As it is now If you live in an opposing color state your vote is worthless.
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While I do not like the idea of electoral votes being distributed based on a state's popular vote, I think I would be fine with the idea of electoral votes being distributed proportionally to the winner of each county. So, if a state has 4 electoral votes and roughly 75% of the counties go to one candidate and 25% go to the other, the votes would go 3 to the one candidate and 1 to the other. This would help to keep the buffer between large cities and rural areas since the votes would still not be counted against each other. I'm not entirely set on this idea yet, but I'm pretty sure that it's better than just dividing the electoral votes proportionally based on the popular vote.
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2nd: IRV is way to confusing and has problems switch to approval voting where everyone votes for as many canidates that they want. If we can get around the IRV confusion problems then combine IRV and approval voting such that you can vote for multiple first/second/third canidates.
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While I'm not a fan of IRV really, I'm not sure how it's confusing. From a voter perspective, all one has to do is rank the candidates. I mean, if it's confusing to say "1. Badnarik, 2. Kerry, 3. Bush" I think a person has bigger problems than just figuring out how to work the voting system
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3rd: Fix the campaign finance problems. Contributions to the political system should go to the government where it is divided evenly amoung canidates. No individual or corperation should be able to give money to a canidate (doing so should be a felony).
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Campaign finance is a definite problem - starting with the fact corporations are considered to be like people.